Search Results for "looking after your wellbeing"
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Looking after your wellbeing following a bushfire
Emerging MindsThis resource explores the importance of parental wellbeing for children’s mental health and recovery following a bushfire, and offers tips to help parents look after themselves as well as their family. -
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Looking after your wellbeing during a drought
Emerging MindsThis resource offers tips for looking after your own wellbeing during drought and explains how taking care of yourself also helps your children's mental health and wellbeing. -
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Looking after your wellbeing following a flood
Emerging MindsIn the aftermath of a flood, you’re working hard to support your child through the trauma and ensure your family’s basic needs are met, but you also need to look after your own wellbeing. -
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Dads – Looking after your emotional wellbeing
Children of Parents with a Mental Illness (COPMI) national initativeThis information sheet provides information specifically for dads about looking after their emotional wellbeing. -
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Dads – Looking after your physical wellbeing
The COPMI national initiativeThis information sheet provides information specifically for dads about looking after their physical wellbeing. -
Guide
Practice principles for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children in out-of-home care
Hilary Miller and Kristel Alla, Australian Institute of Family StudiesThis practice guide uses learnings from Australian and international research to build practitioner awareness of approaches to support the mental health and wellbeing of children in out-of-home care (OOHC). It outlines principles that may be useful to guide practice when supporting children in OOHC. -
Practice paper
Understanding the mental health and wellbeing of children in out-of-home care
Hilary Miller and Kristel Alla, Australian Institute of Family StudiesThis resource briefly explores mental health and wellbeing outcomes and experiences of children in out-of-home care (OOHC) in Australia. It includes information on how feeling safe, receiving information about their care and decisions impacting them, and maintaining relationships with important people can bolster the mental health of children in care. -
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Talking to your child about telehealth
Antony Gates and Sara Abdi, Parenting Research CentreIt’s helpful to prepare your child for any interactions they might have with health professionals to make the most of your telehealth sessions and ensure you receive the support you need to navigate life’s ups and downs. -
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What is telehealth and how can it support my child’s wellbeing?
Antony Gates and Sara Abdi, Parenting Research CentreTechnology is providing all sorts of new ways for us to connect with each other. This includes ways you might connect with professionals involved in supporting you and your child. Many professionals are now able to offer flexible options for families to receive help via the telephone and internet – this is called telehealth. -
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Positive partnerships: Working alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing
Dr Emma Carlin and Zaccariah CoxLearn how you can collaborate with Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations around Australia to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. -
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Supporting children’s wellbeing when working with separating parents
Child Family Community Australia & Emerging MindsCo-produced with Child Family Community Australia (CFCA), this webinar explores how practitioners can make children’s wellbeing central to conversations with parents who are navigating separation and/or divorce. -
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Pre-teen social media use and the impact on mental health and wellbeing
Naomi Deneve, Parenting Research CentreGet insights and tips for holding conversations with pre-teens (9–12 years) and their parents about social media use.